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Introduction 

~^ Whence Cometh Thou? 

In tlie anxious hearts of mankind, 

Of what ever race or creed, 
There's a throb in many a heart beat, 

And a great desire to read. 

There are longings implanted, 

Inexpressible to state, 
To pierce the darken vail of time, 

That so broadly separates. 

To know of his descendents, 

And how he came to be. 
Though all of one great family, 

Of different ancesty, 

Ere we fain would know the future, 

it is good to know the past, 
So a journey now through history, 

Will the problem solve at last. 

As we finger now its pages, 
AVhich conveys the story true. 

Of all nations, kindred, people. 
May it now reveal to you. 

'Tis a question of importance, - 
On the anxious hearts of man 



TelT me quickly give the answer, 

Whence came the dusky sons of Ham? 

'Tis the question they're asking, 

And the Author's o])ject is 
To make known, to give the answer 

In this little Book of his. 



As you now peruse its pages, 

Dating back to ancient lands, 
You will surely find the answer. 

Whence came the dusky sons of Ham. 

Gomposed by Mrs. R. E. Simons^ 



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He Came From God/' 



In considering the Negro of yesterday we must 

iturn to the pages of both Biblical and Circular histories 

in order toa^cquire the most fundamental information 

concerning that great and noble civilization of remote 



ages. 



In the dimly lighted times of man, we discover 
that the race known as the jSTegro, was making marked 
progress and contributing to the cause of humanity in a 
remarkable manner. He gave promise very early in the 
career of man^ of becomings leading factor in a grea.t 
world wide programme. 

Whether due credit to the Negro, and his achieve- 
ments has been given or not, does not at all make void 
the inspired writings of God which give invaluable infor- 
mation as to His dealing with the Negro of yester cen- 
turies. 

With these thoughts we now turn to our mo«t ac- 
curate record the Bible, which sgive-s full account of 
earth's races. 

Theeefore it is logical that we lay the most depen- 
dable foundation, upon which we shall erect our Negro 
structure. 

Many have wondered and questioned as to the 
coming of the. Ne ro civilization. This question has been 
very misleading to many people, especially tliose who have 
not availed themselves of the opportunity of searching in 
to historical facts pertaining to the Negro of ancient times. 

Let us refer to cur most accurate record of earth's 
races and center our attention on the dark race. 

There are not any inspired writings, which indued 



the beginning of nations, whose dates are beyond the 
first five books of t*he Bible, commonly called the 
Pentateuch. 

It has been widely promulgated, that the negro 
civilization developed from apes, and monkey's. These 
lower animals live among trees and swing by their tails 
from one branch to another. The Negro does not con. 
veythe idea that his ancestors were monktys. 

If we accept this untruth, it would be just as log- 
ical to formulate the idea that other races have developed 
from lower animals whose offspring compose the races of 
the earth, 

Man is a believing being but it depends largely 
what he believes and accepts that makes him what he is. 
If he develops the idea that the ancestors of any race 
were lower animals, he has a false conception of humanity 
and his very existence is contradictory to such an erro- 
neous belief. 

Man was made by God on the sixth day of creation. 
"And the Lord caused a de^ p sleep to fall upon Adam, 
and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up 
the flesh instead th-reof." Gen. 2 : 21. "Aiid the rib 
which the Lord God had taken from man, made he a wo- 
man, and brought her unto the man." Gen. 2 : 22 

The offspring of that first iamilj'' has developed 
into the present races, and the Negro is a part of that 
offspring. "God said let us make man.' Gen. 1 : 26. 
"So God created man in his own image." Gen. I : 27. 



One Blood 



The family of JSIoah was of the blood of Adam^ and 
because Noah was a faithful man, God preserved his life 
with his family in the ark, while the waters covered the 
highest mountain peaks. 

There has been but one creation of man, and that was 
when God said, "Let us make man," Gen. 1 : 26. 

All of the races are the offspring of one blood. 
Therefore the human race is but one great common bro- 
therhood with one loving heavenly Father God. We uo 
not have any account of children born to Noah after the 
flood, therefore the races are the offspring of the sons of 
Noah. 

It will be seen from our brief survey of man that 
his language in the beginning was spoken in ©ne tongue, 
that is every man spoke the same language in all parts of 
the inhabited world. This language continued in one 
tongue for a period of some 1 786 years, "And the whole 
earth was one language and one speech." Gen. 1 : 11. 

It seems unfortunate that man does not as a whole 
possess the original language. Can it be that sin has so 
bound mankind that he has lost the original language 
Why do some speak one language and some another 
How can one nation understand the language of another 
How came the comp'lexity of tongues? The reader wil 
now note just how it all took place. 



Babel's Broken Walls 



To repeople the desolate earth, wliich the floocl 
had so lately swept from it's moral corruption. God had 
preserved but one family, the house. hold of Noah. 

In Shem, Hem and Japhet, who were sons of Noah, 
were to be the founders of the human race, was foresha- 
dowed the character of their prosperity. 

Leaving the mountain where the Ark had rested, 
there three great families journeye to the plains of Shinar, 
on .he bank of the river Euphrates they were attracted by 
the beauty of the situation and upon this plain they deter- 
termined to make their heme. 

Here they decided to build a city, and in it a tou er 
of such stupendous hei2ht as should render it the wonder 
of the world. 

This city was to become the metropolis of a univer- 
sal empire, its glory would conimand the admiration and 
homage of the worid, and render the founders illustrious. 

The magnificent tower reaching to the heavens u as 
intended to stand as a monument of power, and wisdom of 
its builders perpetuating their fame to the latest generation 
of men. 

Josephus account of the town of Babel is as follows. 
The three sons of Noah, Shem, Ham and Japhet born one 
hundred years before the deluge. 

God had said that they should separate in col(>nies. 

It was Nimrod who excited the people to turn from 
the command of God. He was the grandson of Ham (a 
Negro) the son of Noah a bold man, and of great strength 
of hand. 

The Bible calls hin "Nimrod the mighty hunter," 



and the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, on the plains 
of Shinar. 



eOD TOUCHED THEIR TONGUES 

Suddenly the work that had been advancing so pros- 
perously was checked. Angels were sent to bring to 
naught the purpose of the builders. The tower had 
reached a lofty height, and it was impossible for the 
workmen at the top to communicate directly with those 
at the base, therefore men were stationed at different 
points each to receive and report to the next below him. 

As messages were thus passing from one to another, 
the language was confounded so that material was called 
for which was not needed. Confusion and dismay followed 
all work came to a stand-still. 

Lightning from heaven as an evidence of God's dis- 
pleasure, broke off the upper portion of the tower and cast 
it to the ground. 

Up to this time there v/as but one language, but God 
touched their tongues causing them to speak various 
languages. However the Lord did not destroy them, but 
scattered them thence upon the face of the earth. "And 
they left off to build the city. Gen. ii: 8. 

Then followed the groups according to the three sons 
of Noah: Shem, Ham, and Japhet. Among these sons the 
Hamitic families founded themselves as a distinct people. 
Nevertheless they were all one blood. 

After the disaster men began to scatter making settle- 
ments according to their speech in the afore uninhabited 



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portions of the earth. 

The family of Shem Journeyed Eastward, the family 

of Japhet^ journeyed Northward, while the family of Hams 
journed Southward, toward the hot section of the earth. 
The land where Ham settled was called (Ethiopia), **The 
children of Ham (Negro) possessed the land of Syria and 
Amanus and the mountains of Libianus; seizing upon all 
that was upon the sea keeping it as their own," 

— Josephus — For further Study, 

Albert Leighton Rawson in his Pronouncing Bible 
Dictionary, makes the matter of location more definite by 
giving modern names of the various countries over which 
'they spread'. 

He says: "The sons and grandsons of Ham located 
in Egypt, Abyssinia, on the South-west coast of the Red 
Sea, in Arabia^ Persia, Ethiopia, Shinar, Chaldea, West 
Africa, Marcotis^ Libia^ Memphis, Thebes^ Pathros, Sidon 
and Tyre, 

The location of what we know specifically of the Negro 
Tace was the valley of Senegal, Gambia and the Niger,' 



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CITIES OF THE BLACK MAN 

''And Cush begat Nimrod he began to be a mighty 
one in the earth." Gen. 10 : 8. 

"And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and 
Erech, Accad and Calneh in the land of Shinar." 

Gen. 10. 70. 

Out of that land went forth Asshur and built Nineveh 
and the city Rehoboth and Calah : the same is a great city- 



Ceil 10: 11, 12. 

At the commencement of history, and nations the sons 

of Ham g-ave promise of becoming- the most powerful and 
influential. Among them arose the first great monarchies 
of Babel Egypt; the ancient and powerful tribes that 
occupied the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean. The 
cities of Sidon and Tyre with the Philistines were of ^at 
race* 

There remains today little, if any at all of the glory 
that shone from these ancient cities of the yesterday 
'Negro> They have fallen and wasted away. We during 
this age are reading the history of the mightiest Negro 
period of all time. 



"EARLY eOVERNMENT" 

After the death of Abraham his descendents by Isaac 
fend Jacob remained in the land of Canaan till the third 
.goneration,, and moved to Eg-ypt settling in the land of 
Goshen for some four hundred years, after this period, 
God would then bring them out of Egypt to the promise 
land. Gen. 15: 13-16. 

Egypt had by this time become a great kingdom 
governed by kings who had the general title of Pharaoh. 
The power which this kingdom had attained may be esti- 
mated by the fact that there was a standing army pre- 
pared to defend itself against invasion by the enemy. 

T>ie record says that one king had six hundred 
chariots of war. 

Some five hundred years after the settlement of the 



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Israelites In Palestine, they adopted a monarchial govern- 
ment. During the whole of this period, Egypt seems to 
have been the most illustrious kingdom oii earth, at least 
so far as western historians are able to determine. 

On the days of Solomon it was in alliance with the 
Israelitish monarchy, Solomon leaving married the 
daughter of the king of Egypt. Of its greatness during' 
this period it has left imperishable monuments in the 
enormous files of buildings and collosal statues that still 
^xist in upiDer and lower Egypt. 



THE NEGRO IN ANCIENT BATTLES 



"^Soon after the Jewish Nation left Egypt^ and ass 
!hey drew nigh the Red Sea, they saw tlie Armies ot 
Egypt pursuing ihcm as they were encamped beside Ri- 
harioth before Baalzepbu)n/' Ex. 14. 9. 

With hearts of terror the IsraUtes cried unto God, 
their cries reached Heaven^ they marched down to the 
Red Sea^ and Moses stretched forth his rod, and the waters 
foiled back^ the Isralites marched safely to the other side. 

The Egyptians followed the path of the Isralites 
but the same hand that caused the waters to roll back de- 
tained the Egyptian host in the midst of the ^ea. There 
was not a soldier left, all were drowned. I'his is one of 
the most tragic occurances that has ever taken place in 
lyistory, 

A second great company of Egyptian Armies is- 
brought to our attention in the batrle against King Rho- 
boam^ who afttr establishing his kingdom forsook God. 

In the fifth year of his reign B. C, 975, "He 



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came up against Jerusalem because they had transgressed 
against the Lord. II Chro. 12. 2. 

With twelve thousand chariots and three score 
thousand horsemen, and the people were without number 
that came with him out of Egypt: the Lubims, the Sunk- 
kims and the Egyptians, II Chro. 12. 3. 

Another military power coming upon the scene 
was Zerah who,se men numbered a million. The military 
forces of Zerah were perhaps equal to that of Darius who 
was defeated by Alexander in the year B. C. 331 at Arbela. 



''SCiENTIFiC ACHIEVEMENTS" 



Among the many achievements of the ancient 
Egyptians is shown by their skill in preserving their dead, 
a science which is today lost to the world. 

The Hamatic race studied the heavenly bodies 
which gave them a knowledge of Astronomy. One of 
the greatest contributions to the field of science was their 
fixing the length of the year at '65 days." 

Penetrating some 300 years and more before the 
birth of Christ, the Egyptian calendar was devised, by it 
the year was divided into twelve months of thirty days 
each and five holidays at each year. 

'*His;ory gives the following account/' The art 
of writing originated in Egypt. The first rudiments of 
writing was nothing more than marks on the walls of mud 
nouses. 

They later devised an Alphabet of twenty four let- 
ters, and could write any word in their language. 

To every Negro whose mind reflects back over the 



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past and almost forgotten ages, be is reminded that the 
Negro of yesterday developed in the Nile Valley; the first 
great civilization in the World's history. 

Therefore all races arc indebted to the Negro for 
these achievements. 



"A HIGH MORAL STANDARD" 



Notwithstanding the blindness of the people on the 
Nile, as far as worshiping God was concerned, there seems 
to have been a very high moral code of living among the 
people. In fact throughout the East our ancient Negroes 
have always held aloft certain legitimate rights in connec- 
tion with their worship, which are upheld by the races of 
earth in all christian lands. 

Here area few of the qualities which were to cha- 
racterise the true Egyptian worshiper. 

"He must ncverdefend, nor commit murder, never 
blaspheme his God, never be an idler nor oppress the 
widow." Selected 

No doubts no fears no sorrows, 

Within my heart now burns. 
No discouragement, no interest smothered 

As I ponder o'er ages past. 
Thinking of dark faces like r»ine. 

Who have lighted this world on time, 
In their foot-steps roll 

The ages so sublime. 



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NEGRO WISDOM 

We live today in an age when other races think 
little of Negro history. Their knowledge of his Hfc beyond 
his Cuming to America, and the West Indies is greatly lim- 
ited. His wide achievements have received little credit, 
but notwithstanding this fact there is inscribed on histories 
pages the greatest thinker of the ages, and this thinker 
was Solomon (a Negro.) 

There is running through the veins of coloured 
people the blood of kings and if they could throw their 
minds back to the days of Solomon, placing themselves in 
his environment they would understand more fully the 
reason why he was sufficiently enlightened to guide a 
nation. 

Concerning the wisdom of Solomon whose works 
come too us enfolded in the sacred scrolls are full of mean- 
ing and truths that lay deep, which is brain food for every 
reader of those marvelous, and striking thoughts. 

"And when the Queen of Sheba heard of the fame 
of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came 
to prove him with hard questions. I Kings 10. 3. 

And Solomon told her all her questions; there was 
not anything hid from the King which he told her not. 
I Kings 10. 3. 

And she said to the King. It was a true report 
that I heard in mine own land of thy acts, and of thy wis- 
dom. I Kings 10. 6. 

There is no shadow of doubt concerning the Queen's 
intelectual status, she must have been a keen and learned 
woman. However when she sat at the King's feet her 
wisdom faded, becoming less than a shadow, even as night- 
ly hours vanish by the breaking of day. 



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So dim and insignificant was the wisdom of Sheba's 
Queen in comparison to the might and knowledge of Solo- 
mon a master of mind [a Negro] of thought. 



SLAVERY A HUMAN CURSE 

The existence of slavery among national powers 
comes down to us from days of antiquity. There seems 
to be two main reasons for its existence. 

It comes in the first place as the result of sin, ne- 
gleict, disobedience and departure from God. Secondly, 
it comes as direct judgements of God. Very early in Jew- 
ish history the fulfillment of these main reasons were 
developed. 

"God told Abraham that his seed would be a stran- 
ger in a strange land that is not theirs, and sh«uld serve 
them four hundred years, and that nation whom they serve 
will I judge, and after that they shall come out with great 
substance." 

The early Egyptians held slaves. Israel was under 
their iron rule for four hundred years, until God sent Mo- 
ses down to Egypt to deliver His people, and lead them to 
aland prepared foi them, and their coming generations. 

So goes the history of nations, slavery and deliver- 
ance, and sometimes complete anihilation. 

As we turn our calm minds to one of the many sub- 
jects of political controversy on the shores of America, and 
and the British West Indies. We will find that Negro 
slavery in these countries was carried on in the superlative 
degree. 

Amost every child of school age is aware as to how 
the Negro was first brought to the West Indies, and later 



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to America whefc he became climatized to living condi^ 
tions. In the West Indies the Negroes were successfully 
exploited so as to make these coloniss the wealthiest in the 
in the world. 

Just how these folks wefe trapped on their home soil 
(Africa) and driven many miles from the interior to the sea- 
shore is very plainly stated in Mr. Woodson's work/^The 
Negro In Our History/' 

The journey accross the hot sunny sands of old 
Africa was more than trying to the poor captives, and hun- 
dreds fell before reaching their destination, their bodies 
were left to be devoured by wild beast of the wilderness 
while the survivers moved on. 

These captives suffered under the cruelty of their 
captors. Being crowded together in ships under the most 
un-sanitary conditions, poor food, and lack of attention, 
followed by fever brought many thousands to death and the 
ocean s bed was their grave. 

Such was the lot of those who underwent that period 
of darkness when it seemed as if God had forsaken them. 



"THE NEGRO CRIED" 

Like every other people that turn back to God after 
days of affliction was the Negro slave in the United States 
of America, 

During the beginning of Nebuchadnezaf's reign^ 
Judah wes carried away into slavery,, and remaining in 
Babylon for seventy years. 

But Darius the Mede overpowered the Babylo- 
nians in 538 B. C These captives were set free and sent 



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back to Jerusalem, with special directions from the Persian 
authorities to rebuild Jerusalem. 

The miraculous hand of God has also been seen as 
He delivered the Negro trom slavery. Biblical and circu- 
lar histories, are not divided concerning those whom God 
hears. 

The Negro cried continually up from Dixie of old, 
away in some barn, or solitary cave tlie cries of those who 
believed in God, turned upward as the tree top turns to- 
ward the Sun. 

True to God, true to himself, true to his master was 
the faithful slave. Notwithstanding the inhumantarian 
treatment which he constantly faced. There seems to have 
been hidden away in his being an unshaken faith in God, 
that led him on until the crust of unpleasant circumstances 
were broken, and the thick darkness removed. God look- 
ed out from his throne, and came to rescue four million 
slaves of Dixie's soil. 

The folk song, the plantation melodies, the early 
morning hummings, and midday shouts of the (Twentieth 
Century Negro) on the cotton fields arc but outgrowths of 
those, who with heart expression and deep grief, whose 
knees had kissed mother earth when the weight of indescri- 
bable wretchedness befell their pathway during the centu- 
ries of yesterday. 

''T have had personal contact with many exslaves. 
I have eaten at their tables, slept in their beds, walked a- 
cross their hot dusty plantations in order that I might bring 
them something concerning the advancement of our race.' 

The shortage of space in this pamphlet prevents my 
dealing on this subject at length, but will be discussed in 
its fullness in my next volume which will contain the sub» 
jects listed in the back page of this work. 



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Part II 
Today 

RISING AND SHINING 

Coming out of the Reconstruction was a nation within 
a nation with new opportunities, which lay in the path of 
the Negro. 

As he began to rise he was privileged to care for, and 
support his family, to educate his children, to take part 
in governmental affairs, and enjoy the blesings of his 
community. 

Negroes began to graduate from universities showing 
competent leadership among their own group, however, 
those who gave heed to men of keen sight went west where 
their advantages were greater. 

Men like R. T. Green, J. N. Langston, J. C. Price and 
J. W. Simmons were swift footed in bringing about better 
conditions for their rising brother. Those who were alert 
followed the advice of their heroic leaders, but some were 
well satisfied to drudge out their existence on the planta- 
tion, living very much the same as they did before the 
emancipation. 

Negroes who migrated West, and North, as results of 
tfeeir geographical positions, their social interminglings, 
their educational standards, and none segregation in many 
avenues have placed them on a foundation of common 
respect. Their ability is unquestionable and their services 
are generally appreciated. 



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When the doors of such institutions as Hampton, 
Tuskegee, Fisk, Spellma and other growing institutions 
that are now world famous, began their work. Little did 
the founders dream of the work expanding to such lengths, 
heights, and depths as we see to-day in behalf of coloured 
people. 



THE NEGRO IN BUSINESS 

"When the National Negro Business League was 
organized by Dr. Booker T. Washington, in 1899 in that 
year it was reported that capital invested in strictly 
Negro enterprises amounted to $9,000,000. It was high 
time for Negro business men to organize. 

Since that first meeting in 1899 regular conventions 
have been held annually in various parts of the country, 
and the League has served as a source of inspiration and 
information. Such men as Dr. Booker T. Washington, 
Hon. J. C. Naiper and R. R. Moton have served as its 
president. 

V/hen the Negro League was organized Negroes 
owned and operated 20,000 business enterprises. Now it 
is two billions. The Business League had a very large 
part in this astounding progress. 

Scholarships have been established at many of the 
leading business colleges for young men and women of our 
group to prepare themselves more thoroughly for business 
career. 

The Negro National Finance Corporation was con^ 
ceived by Dr. Moton, and his conception was put into 
prac'ical form at the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the 



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Business League. The purpose of the Finance Corpora- 
tion is to provide working capital for individual firms and 
corperations/' 

— (Progress of a Race.) 

J. L. NICHOLS. 

COLOURED WOMEN PUSH FORWARD 

"Club work among women, until women made up her 
mind that her efforts to help in the development of the 
world's work were not taken into account there was no- 
thing among us that could be rightly called organization. 
Questions relating to the home, the church, the school, and 
the State were all of vital interest to women. She wanted 
her home pure and secure. She held the church as a 
bulwark against indecent living. 

So great was the zeal that almost immediately the 
National Temperance Association, the National Congress 
of Mothers, The National Congress of Women, the Na- 
tional Federation of Women's Clubs and other societies of 
more or less importance were thrown on the screen and 
the world began to take notice. 

So began the American colored women to organise, so 
came into shape the National Association of Colored 
Women's Clubs which nov\^ bas a membership of over 
300,000 women located in every State in the country 
including Canada, Liberia, and Cuba." 

— (Progress of a Race.) 

J. L. NICHOLS. 



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The opening' of the afore organizations are some of 
the factors that are at hand to-day. When the opportuni- 
ty came the Negro did not fail to lay hold upon the day of 
small things. 

What are the results? We find colored women 
ascending to the height of success in business, in profes- 
sion, in occupations, and minor walks of life. 

Statistics show plainly the marked progress since the 
w^all of partition began to be broken down. 



eOD'S NEGLECTED DARK SPOT 

The darkest spot on the soil of America is in the 
Southern States. There remains much to be done in many 
avenues of life in this field. 

Up through the centuries men have lived, dreamed, 
and died, statesmen have orated in the halls of Congreso. 
Authors have written many wonderful books. Poets have 
sung about God's dark people who are very much neglected. 

Unusual avenues must be trod in order to reach the 
lower class of colored folk in America. We do not say too 
much, when we say that many Negroes in the deep South 
have gotten little out of this century of progress. 

Someone must show the colored folk that the price has 
been paid for their liberation and the Negro of to-day 
must reach higher, and still higher, but in order to accom- 
plish this, we should strike the iron while it is red. 

There was never any greater opportunity to lead 
colored folk away from their old slavish practices than 
to-day. 

We need men who are willing to give their lives for 



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their race. We need young men and young women who 
are willing to go where darkness hangs so heavily. 

One writer has said ''The Southern field is suffering 
for workers. Will you pass by your people making no 
effort to help them, or will you with a humble heart work 
to save the perishing?" 



Negro Children of the Backwoods 

There are thousands of Negro children in America 
whose parents have been pushed back from the frontiers, 
forcing them to find shelter in the woods. Similar cases 
are found among the lower class of white folk scattered 
throughout various sections of the South. 

Living so far in the backwoods and coming in contact 
with modern living so seldom, children naturally fall into 
an unavoidable atmosphere of local habits, and expres- 
sions, which has a telling influence throughout the life of 
these unfortunate individuals. 

The daily papers are filled with crime, carried on in 
a major degree by the opposite race, but turning the cur- 
tain back and viewing the moral status of colored folk, one 
cannot but remark when statistics make known the low 
moral standard among the Negro especially is this true in 
America. 



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Part III 



T. 



omorrow 

AN AGE OF MARVELS 



With the many inventions, achievements, movements, 
and comforts of this age. It is not difficult to visualize 
mighty and noble strides in the Negro life of tomorrow. 
Just as the Negro of yesterday, developed into the Negro 
of today, just so surely will the Negro of to-day, develop 
into the Negro of to-morrow. 

There are facts that cannot be denied pertaining to 
the future progress of our race. There are some obstacles 
vrhich must be removed before this growing race becomes 
sufficiently qualified to master the situation and problems 
that now confront them. 

The chief ob:^.tacle which presents itself is the lack of 
education. This lacking has prevented our progress time 
and again. I hope that the readers of this phamplet will 
not fail to grasp the truthfulness of these statements. If 
you have children educate them. You may not be in posi- 
tion to send them to college, no not even to high school, 
but what I would suggest is this, labour to make them 
studious. 

My many years in the Southern States both as student, 
and evangelist brought me in contact with various organi- 
zation that have been launched for the purpose of our 
development as a race. 



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Educate, educate, educate our boys and girls in a most 
thorough manner they are to be the men and women of 
tomorrow. 

If the Negro youth could realize more fully the power- 
ful factors which are today in their path, and harness 
themselves to lead their race to higher ideals in the home, 
the community, and the church. 

We would see tomorrow with its heroes. We would 
see it with powerful masters in earth's greatest age. We 
would behold crystalized on time's pages the works of the 
dusky sons of Ham embodied in the Negro of to-morrow. 

The next issue of this work will come to you, in a 
beautiful binding titled, In Letters of Gold. 

The Three Day Negro in its entirety will contain 
approximately four hundred pages including various 
illustrations of Negro activities and enterprises. These 
pictures will not be confined to America and the British 
West Indies alone but will include scenes of Egypt dating 
back to Negro history in its infancy. 

The following subjects will be contained therein. 

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Whence comest Thou? 

He came from God. 

Creation. 

Man. ■ 

The World Before the Flood. 

One Blood. ; ;' 

Three Sons of Noah. 

The Beginning of Languages. 

The Rainbow in the Cloud. 

The Walls of Babel. 



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God Touched their Tongues, ~ 

Cities of The Black Man. 

Egypt. 

Pyramids. 

The Famous Sphynx. 

Early Government. 

The Negro in Ancient Battles. 

Shishak at Jerusalem. 

A Thousand Thousand. 

Scientific Achievements. 

Astronomy. 

An Old Land Marks 

Who Gave The World Its Greatest Gift? 

Earth's Races Indebted to the Negro. 

A Very Religious People. 

What the Negro Thought of the Year After. 

The Negro and The Golden Calf. 

A High Moral Standard. 

Music. 

Amusements. 

Architecture. 

Negro Wisdom. 

A Great Black Ring. 

Soloman's Special Guest. 

Old Ethiopia. 

Africa. 

Slavery a Human Cur^ic. 

Negro Slavery. 

The Plantation Negro. 

Born in Slavery. 

What The Negro Lost. 

The Negro Cried. 

Men Whom God Called. B J) 1. 0. 4 



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Abraham Lincoln. 

The Reconstruction. 

The Negro in Business. 

Colored Women Push Forward. 

Powerful Ecclesiastical Organizations. 

The Negroe's Greatest Need. 

The New Plantation Negro. 

Man a Tiller of The Soil. 

Negro Children of the Backwoods. 

God's Neglected Dark Spot. 

Who is to Blame? 

Our Religious Life. 

Negro Churches Decline. 

More Efficient Ministry. 

The Ruling Hand. 

This Advancing Youth Age. 

Man's Duty to Himself. 

Evangelism on Wings in Africa. 

Not Far Hence. 




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